1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:25,760 This is Jimmy Internet. 2 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:31,520 We are coming to you from the heart, the center of the dartboard of the Texas Hill country 3 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:33,640 on a Sunday afternoon. 4 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,800 We're doing something a little bit different this time and we want to welcome you to the 5 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:37,880 show. 6 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:43,480 This is our podcast, Living Up in a Down World and of course I have my beautiful wife, Annette, 7 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:44,480 right across. 8 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:48,000 By the way, this is a very special day for Miss Annette. 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 I knew you were going to do that. 10 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,680 For Dame Annette. 11 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:52,440 We're not going to say how young you are. 12 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:53,440 Please don't. 13 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:55,640 But we are going to say happy birthday to you. 14 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,080 We are so honored to have you with us. 15 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,080 Give a round of applause. 16 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,280 A little heartbeat to go with that. 17 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,920 Just for me, that's my heart right now for you. 18 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:06,920 Happy birthday, sweetie. 19 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:07,920 Thank you. 20 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:08,920 How do you feel? 21 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:10,280 I mean, do you feel any older? 22 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:11,280 You know how it is. 23 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,600 Everybody always says, do you feel older on your birthday? 24 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,400 You know, about two weeks ago I started to feel older. 25 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,480 Well, I actually looked in the mirror and I thought, oh my gosh. 26 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,640 Was that when I found you in a fetal position in your closet? 27 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:22,640 Yes. 28 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:23,640 No. 29 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:24,640 Crying, sucking your thumb? 30 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,520 No, not in the closet at all. 31 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:28,520 It's not done. 32 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:29,520 Well, let me ask you a question. 33 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaking of aging, don't you like the wisdom that comes? 34 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,840 That's the best part of aging. 35 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:35,840 I know. 36 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:36,840 It is. 37 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:37,840 It's the trade-off, isn't it? 38 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:38,840 It is. 39 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:45,200 So we get more bumps, bruises, and scratches and treadwear on our tires, so to speak. 40 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:53,760 And yet the payoff is we get this bank of information, this bank of wisdom to draw from, 41 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,000 these deposits that are made along the way, whether you wanted them or not. 42 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,560 And hopefully learn from all the challenges and mistakes that we've made in the past. 43 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:02,560 Mistakes. 44 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:03,560 What mistakes have we made? 45 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:04,560 Not that we've made, that others have made. 46 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:05,560 Here you go. 47 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,120 We're always the victim, aren't we? 48 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,040 It's always somebody else's fault. 49 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:10,040 Always. 50 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:17,120 Actually, just for our awesome listeners, just so you know, Annette and I, we're owners. 51 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,480 What an owner is, an owner is someone who owns what they do. 52 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:22,400 They own their mistakes. 53 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:23,680 They own their flaws. 54 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,880 They own their missteps. 55 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:28,920 And we're all about owning it, aren't we? 56 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:29,920 Right. 57 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:31,200 Why are we so much about owning it? 58 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:32,200 What do you think? 59 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:37,320 I don't know, because we understand that we're human. 60 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:39,320 There you go. 61 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:40,320 Challenges are going to come. 62 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:43,080 We're not always going to make the right decisions. 63 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:47,040 Pastor Robert Morris from Gateway Church, who is one of my favorite pastors, who I got 64 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:48,320 to spend some time with this week. 65 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,880 I'll talk a little bit more about that in a bit, maybe. 66 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:52,520 It was a wonderful time. 67 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:57,200 But he is doing a sermon series, or was up until Easter, I'm not sure if he's going to 68 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:58,200 continue, called... 69 00:02:58,200 --> 00:02:59,200 Yes. 70 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,640 No, it was Joyce Meyer spoke today at Gateway. 71 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:04,320 I think next week he's going to finish it, though. 72 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,640 It has been a great series called Divinely Human. 73 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:15,280 I absolutely appreciate that and love that because it really talks about the fact that 74 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:16,680 we are divine. 75 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:21,360 We have the image of God, the Imago Dei in Latin, the image of God, but we also have 76 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,480 our human side, which is not a bad side, it just is. 77 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,840 Being human isn't wrong or bad, it just is. 78 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:30,120 We were born that way, right? 79 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:31,800 What can we do? 80 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:36,080 He's doing the series where he's taking Bible characters and talking about the divine side 81 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:40,160 of them, but also the human and flawed side. 82 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,680 We're owners. 83 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,680 We own our stuff, so to speak. 84 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:47,520 To me, you can be a victim or a volunteer. 85 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:49,520 How about a victor? 86 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:51,240 Yes, or a victor. 87 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:52,240 Rock the metaphor. 88 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,240 Yes, there you go. 89 00:03:54,240 --> 00:04:02,000 Some people are volunteers for a long time before they become a victor. 90 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,760 No doubt. 91 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:04,760 We've done this. 92 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:05,760 We've been in this game. 93 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:06,760 I say this game. 94 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:07,760 We've been in this career. 95 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,800 I've been doing this 38 years, and Nett's been doing it with me 28, really 30, because 96 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:16,240 we've been married for 30 years. 97 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:21,760 We've seen a lot of different things in working in what some people call the people business, 98 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,280 which is church life, being a pastor, shepherding people. 99 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:30,680 Through the years, with the various churches we've been in, whether it was student ministry 100 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:38,080 or doing... I was working for Dave Ramsey, or whether you were running an office. 101 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:42,100 For all those other years we've been in church ministry, there's literally been thousands 102 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:48,680 of people that have crossed our paths that we've been able to walk with. 103 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,880 We've seen a lot of stuff, wouldn't you say? 104 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,480 We've seen both the divine and the human, haven't we? 105 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:54,480 Yes, that's for sure. 106 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:55,480 Lots of it. 107 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:59,520 Mostly human, but the divine is good too. 108 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:04,700 If you're interested in looking for something to study or listen to, I would highly recommend 109 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:10,840 going to gatewaypeople.com and listening to Robert Morse's messages, particularly on this 110 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:12,440 series called Divinely Human. 111 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:17,040 I think you would be encouraged and you'd get a lot out of it. 112 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,480 I started this little convo and got sidetracked. 113 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,200 Squirrel, squirrel, that's me. 114 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,600 That's a story of my life living with you. 115 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:26,600 No doubt. 116 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,160 Do you remember the time you asked what was on my mind? 117 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,680 I said, don't ever tell me again. 118 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,280 Well, you're cutting to the point. 119 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:37,680 What happened was I said, are you sure you really want to know what's on my mind? 120 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:39,800 I mean, literally what's on my mind? 121 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,560 You say, yeah, I want to know what you're thinking about. 122 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,760 So I proceeded to rattle off what was pinging in my brain. 123 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,640 About an hour later, I said, I was never going to ask you again. 124 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,920 You're like, I will never ask that question again. 125 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:53,640 This is probably a good idea. 126 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:55,960 I said, but imagine if you were living in this brain. 127 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:57,840 This is why I believe you're ADD. 128 00:05:57,840 --> 00:05:58,840 Totally. 129 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:00,160 Not ADHD, because you're not hyperactive. 130 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:01,640 Remember I said I'm an owner? 131 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:02,640 Yes. 132 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:03,960 I own that totally. 133 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:05,280 Which is not always a bad thing. 134 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:07,720 I was going to say, it actually bodes pretty well for me. 135 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,640 It's a good thing, especially for someone in your lot of work. 136 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,920 It's exhausting, but I can have a lot of different things going. 137 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,760 It's more exhausting for me than it is for you. 138 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:18,760 For sure. 139 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:19,760 Wearing this girl out. 140 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,600 Well, again, we want to say thank you for joining us today. 141 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,640 We actually have Mr. Chevy with us. 142 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:25,640 He's being restless. 143 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:26,640 I know. 144 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:27,640 What are you doing over there? 145 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:28,640 I'm not doing anything. 146 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:29,640 I didn't snap my fingers. 147 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:30,640 The snap is like a signal. 148 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:31,640 No, he's trying to get comfortable. 149 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:32,640 He's just uncomfortable. 150 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:33,640 He's a good boy. 151 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:34,920 He's like, it's not the right day. 152 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,760 He's like, what are we doing in here? 153 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,720 He's throwing him off. 154 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:40,560 We had a visit from our daughter, Faith. 155 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:46,200 It was so good to have her over because it's your birthday, Miss Daymonette. 156 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:47,920 I think only Adam Curry can say that. 157 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:48,920 Adam uses Daymonette. 158 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:53,000 I know, but I just think about that when we're doing podcasting because I think about Adam 159 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,640 and Tina, of course. 160 00:06:54,640 --> 00:07:00,720 So anyway, she came over and you wanted a very special birthday lunch. 161 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:05,080 So by the way, Sunday, so this is Palm Sunday, which I want to talk a little bit about that 162 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,080 because I think that's very interesting. 163 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,640 I've got a confession to make regarding Palm Sunday, but we'll talk about that in a minute. 164 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:13,800 But you had a very special... 165 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,800 You said, where do you want to go for lunch? 166 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:24,080 Well, we've been doing keto for several weeks with our few cheat meals in and out. 167 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:25,080 Me more than you. 168 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:26,080 Yeah, right. 169 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,160 As the doctor has prescribed. 170 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:33,800 But I was so craving, this is crazy, Sonic. 171 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:35,880 I wanted a cheeseburger and french fries. 172 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:36,880 Go big or go home. 173 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:41,320 I told my son, he texted me a little bit ago to say happy birthday and he was like, what 174 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:42,720 did you do for your birthday? 175 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,720 I said, well, I was hungry for Sonic. 176 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,560 He just was like, what? 177 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:49,000 Of all the places. 178 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:50,240 He said, why not five guys? 179 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:51,720 I said, we live in Fredericksburg. 180 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:52,720 We don't have a five guys. 181 00:07:52,720 --> 00:08:00,520 The only five guys we have are down on the corner saying, we'll work for food. 182 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,960 I wanted a, what do you call it? 183 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:04,960 Mud pie? 184 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:07,200 Oh, that chocolate mud something pie. 185 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:08,880 Mud slide pie or something like that. 186 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:09,880 Oh yeah, I think that's it. 187 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:11,560 Mud slide pie from Clear River. 188 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,520 Clear River, which is amazing. 189 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:18,120 Ice cream and bakery in town that's been there for years. 190 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:22,920 Anyone who visits Fredericksburg or tours, they know that we're going to Clear River 191 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,600 for ice cream. 192 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:26,920 So how was your hamburger? 193 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:28,680 Your Sonic number one with mustard. 194 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,680 It was a little bit as good as I knew, which is crazy. 195 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:32,680 I never was a fan. 196 00:08:32,680 --> 00:08:33,680 Did you do french fries today? 197 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:36,680 Yes, but I never was a fan of Sonic until recently. 198 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:38,080 I rocked the tater tots today. 199 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,200 I know you love, and the corn dog. 200 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,400 You love the corn dogs. 201 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:49,480 Corn dogs for Jimmy Pruitt, for Pastor Jimmy are basically a food group of their own. 202 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,000 I grew up a latchkey kid, so guess what I cooked? 203 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,440 Tony's pizzas and Gary's super dogs growing up. 204 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:01,360 My mom would buy them in 24 packs, so we had them all the time. 205 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,720 It's amazing I still have a heartbeat. 206 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:05,720 How funny. 207 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,120 My arteries aren't completely clogged. 208 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,880 You had a cheeseburger, tater tots, then a corn dog. 209 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,480 Well, only reason I had that, you see, don't make it sound like I'm such a glutton. 210 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:15,480 No, you're not. 211 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:17,000 And you had the corn dog for dinner. 212 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,000 For dinner. 213 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Because we just ate dinner. 214 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,000 That's right. 215 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,720 I threw it in the air fryer and it was just as good as it went. 216 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:23,200 It was better. 217 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,520 So yeah, and you wanted a bite, and I was a little stingy. 218 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:27,800 You were very stingy. 219 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:29,240 You had only one corn dog. 220 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,880 I know, but I just wanted, I mean, so I literally... 221 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:33,160 You don't even know what corn dogs mean to me. 222 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,000 I know, but honey, it's my birthday. 223 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,000 I couldn't believe it. 224 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,000 That's true. 225 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,000 That's true. 226 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,640 You mean run down to Sonic and get you another one? 227 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,040 This is what I love about my birthday. 228 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:47,340 It's early in the month, April 2nd, so I like to celebrate the whole month. 229 00:09:47,340 --> 00:09:48,840 Your birthday's January 30th. 230 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,040 You only get two days, the 30th, 31st. 231 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:52,040 That's it. 232 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:53,040 So I have the better birthday. 233 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:54,040 Sucks to be me. 234 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:55,040 You're funny. 235 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:59,600 You do have the better birthday because it's like one day after April Fool's. 236 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:01,160 Which I'm so glad it's not April Fool's. 237 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:02,320 What time of the day were you born? 238 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:03,320 I'm curious. 239 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:04,320 I think it was... 240 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:05,320 I have no idea. 241 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:06,320 Was it well into the day? 242 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,320 No, I think it was early morning. 243 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,960 It's like you weren't far off from April Fool's, baby. 244 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:11,960 Wow. 245 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:12,960 That would have been horrible. 246 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:13,960 Right. 247 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:16,480 Or great, depending on your perspective. 248 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,260 So what I want to talk about today, we had Palm Sunday. 249 00:10:20,260 --> 00:10:21,260 So here's the confession. 250 00:10:21,260 --> 00:10:22,600 I said I had a confession to make. 251 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:23,600 You did. 252 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:28,560 The confession is this, that in 38 years of teaching and preaching, which I've done, I 253 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:32,160 mean this has made my whole career, my whole life, my whole adult life. 254 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:38,640 Well, technically I'm not really an adult, but anyway, my whole life, I have never preached 255 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:41,440 specifically a Palm Sunday message. 256 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:42,860 No, you never have. 257 00:10:42,860 --> 00:10:44,040 Not since I've known you. 258 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:49,880 Before you start throwing sticks and stones at me through the internet there, the reason 259 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:54,280 is because I wasn't raised in church at all, so I didn't become a Christian until I was 260 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,040 18 years of age. 261 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:59,720 And it didn't really take root until I was 19. 262 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:04,440 And so I was really late to the game in terms of being in ministry and whatnot. 263 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:05,440 Not as late as some. 264 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:10,840 I met a guy that went into the ministry at 58 years of age recently, Arlie Lammers, one 265 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:12,960 of our local pastors here. 266 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,000 Now he's retired, but anyway, wonderful guy. 267 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,120 I met a guy last week who's 38 years of age. 268 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,000 He was an attorney and then he felt called ministry. 269 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,600 So I wasn't as late as some, but I was late for most. 270 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:30,280 So I had a lot of catching up to do because I had no Christian reference in my background, 271 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:31,280 in my past. 272 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:36,240 So I was like just learning everything brand new at 19 years of age. 273 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:41,120 So not growing up with traditions. 274 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:45,480 Our Easter tradition was Easter egg hunts over at Nanny and Pawpaw's house. 275 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:46,480 That's it. 276 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,680 I mean, all the cousins, the whole big family got together. 277 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:55,040 We had a great time, but there was zero reference to Jesus Christ in the resurrection. 278 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:56,280 There was nothing. 279 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:58,520 So I never heard anything about that. 280 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:03,360 You know, just here and there, maybe in my childhood at some one point or another. 281 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,680 But for the most part, all it was, it was about dying Easter eggs. 282 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:11,120 Remember the dye kits you would buy and it had the little wire egg holder and the dot 283 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:12,480 little tablets you dropped. 284 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:14,400 It was always exciting, right? 285 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,440 We would dye the eggs and sometimes they'd have little stickers you could put on them. 286 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,320 Those were cheesy, but I liked actually dying them, dropping them into the hot dye. 287 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:23,960 But that was a big deal for us. 288 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:29,120 And then we hunted them and we had a great time, but never anything about Jesus Christ. 289 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:34,560 And so when I became a Christian, this was all new to me and it didn't have, I had no 290 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:35,560 tradition. 291 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:41,320 So there was nothing burned into my habits or my traditional rhythms or celebrations. 292 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:45,480 So and you grew up, well, not you grew up, but you became a Baptist. 293 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:46,480 You're right. 294 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:47,480 I have never grown up. 295 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:48,480 Exactly. 296 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:49,480 You're really right about that. 297 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:50,480 I'm sorry. 298 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:55,800 But you became a Baptist and I don't, you know, I was Baptist for many years, but I don't 299 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:57,360 recall a Palm Sunday. 300 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:03,160 I'm sure they preached on Palm Sunday, but it's not as prevalent as it is in the... 301 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:04,160 Yeah. 302 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:05,160 It wasn't in the church's IT either. 303 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:09,800 It's more like Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian. 304 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:14,560 Protestant and Catholic are quite, I mean, they have beautiful traditions. 305 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:19,400 As I've grown older and have gotten to make so many friends who are pastors and priests 306 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:25,020 and involved in other faith traditions, I'm the president of our local ministerial association. 307 00:13:25,020 --> 00:13:31,720 So I have great relationships with guys from Calvary Chapel to non-denominational to Baptist 308 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:37,760 to Episcopalian and Catholic and lots of Lutherans in Fredericksburg because it's a German town, 309 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:39,200 it's a German community. 310 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:40,200 It's a lot of Lutherans. 311 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,160 We've been here seven years and this is the first time you've preached it. 312 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:47,920 First time in seven years, but the first time in 38 years of teaching and preaching that 313 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:48,920 I've actually... 314 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,120 And you really don't recall preaching on it before? 315 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:52,120 I don't. 316 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:53,120 And maybe I did. 317 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:58,000 I literally don't remember and it's not in my mind that I've ever done it. 318 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,840 So why do you think it was so special this... 319 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:04,840 I mean, what made you say, okay, this is the time. 320 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:06,840 I'm ready to preach this? 321 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,960 Actually I cannot tell you that I've actually been racking my brain about why has this 322 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,720 suddenly become so meaningful to me? 323 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:17,880 I don't know other than I believe the Holy Spirit said, I want you to do this. 324 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:21,200 And to our church, I mean, we're in a very... 325 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:28,500 Okay, we're not in a multicultural community in terms of ethnicity, but we are in a very 326 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:35,360 multicultural community theologically and we're in a multicultural generationally. 327 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,400 So we have a wide range of ages in our church. 328 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:45,920 I mean, we represent everybody from child to very old adults, but we also have a lot 329 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:47,280 of theological perspectives. 330 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,320 We have a lot of Catholics that come to our church and we love our Catholic friends, a 331 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:57,720 lot of Episcopalians, a lot of Presbyterians and many, many, many Lutherans and some Baptists 332 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:58,720 in there. 333 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,240 And then we have some non-denominational and Charismatics. 334 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:02,440 We're like 31 flavor... 335 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:03,440 What? 336 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:04,440 Baskin-Robbins 31 flavors. 337 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:05,440 At least. 338 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:06,440 Heinz 57. 339 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:10,920 I think we're more on the 57 side of things. 340 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:14,880 But it's a beautiful array and really I always joke and I'm not telling you in a joke, I 341 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:16,920 say, this is what heaven looks like. 342 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:21,520 All these different denominations, churches of Christ as well, coming together, celebrating 343 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:28,480 our common values, our commonalities in Christ, and that's what unifies us. 344 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:32,560 It's not always our second and third tier beliefs. 345 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,000 It's our primary belief in Jesus as Lord. 346 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,560 Jesus Christ is our Savior. 347 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:37,560 He's our Messiah. 348 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:42,680 So I think after these seven years of being here in Fredericksburg, getting to know many 349 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:48,080 wonderful Protestants and hearing of all these beautiful, wonderful traditions, for some 350 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,760 reason this year it was heavy on me. 351 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:58,120 Well, I think too preaching on heaven and what that means to us, think about what Jesus 352 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,680 did on the cross for us. 353 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:06,440 And so I think all that and with all these funerals that we've been having, we also had 354 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:10,400 someone that was very close to us pass away last week. 355 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:18,920 So I think at our age, we began to really think about our mortality. 356 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:20,680 And what's important? 357 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:22,120 What matters at the end of the day? 358 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:26,280 I'm more interested in church history now than I've ever been. 359 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:31,040 So that kind of brings us to what we talked about before we just dive into Palm Sunday. 360 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,080 This is a part of it. 361 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:38,000 We were talking about this, how remember I asked you about purging. 362 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,800 What are we learning from this? 363 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,200 So we shared, I think it's two weeks ago we shared. 364 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,120 We talked last week too. 365 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,080 We've shared a little bit over the last few weeks about how when Annette came back from 366 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:53,800 a conference, she sat me down and said, I really want you to help me with something. 367 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,040 I want to stop. 368 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:56,040 I want to purge. 369 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:01,080 I want to get rid of things that are non-essential in a sense. 370 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,560 I remember here in Richard Foster say eliminate and concentrate. 371 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:06,400 So I want to eliminate the non-essentials. 372 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,080 Let's focus on what's important. 373 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:12,760 And so we've been doing that and what it's done, it's bought back, first of all, tons 374 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,180 of hours in our evenings especially. 375 00:17:16,180 --> 00:17:22,240 But also it's created margin in us emotionally and spiritually. 376 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,880 And so how's your purge going? 377 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:31,800 Well, the thing is for me, I was sitting in church, I actually was standing up worshiping 378 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:37,280 and the thought came to me how I feel so pure in heart. 379 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,080 The Bible says the pure in heart will see God. 380 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:48,920 I feel like I'm seeing God in a whole different lens than I did before because I feel more 381 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:49,920 pure. 382 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:54,120 Not that we're watching or doing anything that was wrong, but when you put your total 383 00:17:54,120 --> 00:18:00,280 focus on things that are so good like Jesus and you're learning about Him, you're watching 384 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:05,600 things that are uplifting, nothing that's pulling you down, that's bringing fear in 385 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:11,120 your life, that's causing you to mistrust people. 386 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:14,880 I just don't have any of that in my life, five weeks now. 387 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,240 And so I feel so pure. 388 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:26,120 I almost started to cry in church today because I felt, wow, I could have felt like this a 389 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:28,400 long time ago. 390 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:36,000 And yet I'm feeling it now and I'm more drawn to Jesus and the Holy Spirit than I've ever 391 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,640 been in my life. 392 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:45,800 I'm more focused and I feel like I'm more confident as a Christian, as a Christ follower, 393 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,760 a lot more confident than I've ever been. 394 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:55,720 And that bodes well to do what we did, which is just get rid of the non-essentials in our 395 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:56,720 life. 396 00:18:56,720 --> 00:19:01,040 Which is interesting because there was a time probably six months, a year or two years ago, 397 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,600 where that didn't even cross our mind. 398 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:07,520 Because like everybody else, we would, somebody would say, hey, there's this great show on 399 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:09,440 Netflix you can binge watch. 400 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:10,440 And we would. 401 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:14,480 We'd spend a whole weekend watching shows back to back to back to back. 402 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:17,760 And let me just, first of all, say not that there's a problem with that. 403 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:22,640 I don't want to ever intimate that somehow that's a problem for you. 404 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,440 And it was fun. 405 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:31,480 But there comes a point in your life as you grow where you say, I want more. 406 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:38,320 I know I already have all of God I'm going to get, but I want him to have more of me. 407 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:39,320 Exactly. 408 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,260 That's the simple way of saying it. 409 00:19:41,260 --> 00:19:44,360 And so how do I give him more of myself? 410 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:46,760 Well, maybe just getting rid of some things. 411 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,140 It's not like, this is not epic. 412 00:19:49,140 --> 00:19:50,400 This is not dramatic. 413 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:54,600 We didn't like weep and wail and thrust our spear for our stomach. 414 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,700 I didn't fall on a spear or anything for this. 415 00:19:57,700 --> 00:20:02,920 It was just literally saying, Hey, we don't have to watch all of that. 416 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:13,000 And so we were totally hooked on the Chicago Wednesday night series, Chicago, Chicago fire. 417 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:18,320 My dad was a firefighter so that I love that show and Chicago PD. 418 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:23,480 So my dad being a first responder, obviously that's all kind of meaningful and nostalgic 419 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,600 for me, but not essential. 420 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:26,600 Exactly. 421 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:31,200 And we found ourselves getting emotional over other people's drama. 422 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,200 Yes. 423 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:38,200 So anyway, so just as an update on this purge thing, I mean, it's an experiment for us and 424 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:39,960 life is a lab class, right? 425 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:40,960 Right. 426 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,400 So in a real sense, this life is a staging area for the next life. 427 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:49,800 Well, the sad thing is I knew God had told me that I needed to get rid of things in my 428 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:50,800 life. 429 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:56,440 It just took me so long before I would acquiesce and just say, okay, I'm ready to do this. 430 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:00,000 Which is interesting because you're the microwave and I'm the slow cooker. 431 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,000 I know. 432 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,600 So normally I'd be the one going, well, I really think about and process this. 433 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,960 But for you, normally it's like you make a decision. 434 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:17,160 I had to, it was almost like I had to, I had to hear it loud, louder and louder. 435 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,840 It was, it was an addiction. 436 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:20,840 Yeah. 437 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:21,920 Yeah, exactly. 438 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,960 But anyway, so just as an update guys. 439 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:31,960 Well, I think that we need to be able, we, we all need to, if we're followers of Jesus, 440 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,400 we need to be at the point. 441 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:42,080 Or come to a point where we say, Jesus, what is it that you want me to put aside so that 442 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:43,800 I can be more like you? 443 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:44,800 Perfect. 444 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,800 I love the way you put that. 445 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,440 So it's not a matter of us telling you to do something like this because first of all, 446 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:55,320 that's your own business and in your own walk with God, wherever you happen to be on the, 447 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,840 on the timeline is your walk with God. 448 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:00,880 It's personal to you. 449 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,720 We're just sharing with you something that's really helped us and it's, it's at a season 450 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:10,040 and it seems very natural and right for us in the season, but it wouldn't have felt right 451 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,600 or natural a year ago, you know? 452 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,960 So yeah, it's the right thing now. 453 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,160 So anyway, good update. 454 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:22,360 All that say is, is wherever you add her in your season, sometimes you've got to come 455 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:28,080 to the place where you say, I want more out of my walk with God and out of my faith and 456 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,440 I'm experiencing right now. 457 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,840 And so whatever that looks like, I want to go there. 458 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,640 So that's for you and hope that'll help you. 459 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:41,560 So I, today I, I dove into Palm Sunday study. 460 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,540 So for those of you who don't know, or if you're kind of new to the broadcast, I nerd 461 00:22:45,540 --> 00:22:47,120 out on Bible study. 462 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:48,120 I'm not a nerdy guy. 463 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:52,840 I mean, I played football, I would lift weights, I pump iron, I play lead guitar. 464 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,080 I'm, I'm a, I'm a dude. 465 00:22:55,080 --> 00:23:02,840 But when it comes to scripture and the Bible, God, when I was a brand new young Christian 466 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:08,880 at 18, 19 years of age, it was a, I fell in love with the word of God, the Bible. 467 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,200 And so I get really excited studying. 468 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,880 I nerd out, I always say I'm nerding out, but it's really not nerding out. 469 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,000 It's just being diligent, but that's my term. 470 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,200 I nerd out studying. 471 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:25,520 And so when I was diving into this study on Palm Sunday, so many amazing things. 472 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,800 And of course the Holy spirit leads us to the right sources, listening to the right 473 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,160 messages, reading the right things. 474 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:37,840 Annette and I have really gotten more acquainted with the Logos Bible software. 475 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,400 And so we dive in and study, but you know, for those of you that are looking to study 476 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,320 the Bible, there are great programs online. 477 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:49,920 You can Google and get free resources to study the Bible online. 478 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:56,360 And then I also use another one called Olive Tree, which is a great Bible app that you 479 00:23:56,360 --> 00:24:01,900 can, over the years I've bought commentaries and different pieces, different translations. 480 00:24:01,900 --> 00:24:06,920 So there's a lot of great tools out there that used to, I'd have a desk full of books. 481 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,120 I mean, massive books like Strong's. 482 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:10,840 We got rid of most of them. 483 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:11,840 Exhaustive concordance. 484 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,320 It was very exhaustive. 485 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,520 But all these big books. 486 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:20,480 But now, you know, with computers and digital age, it's so easy to really do good Bible 487 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:21,480 study. 488 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:26,880 And so as I begin to dive into this Palm Sunday, and I discovered some things that I think 489 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,700 are interesting, and maybe that would be interesting to you. 490 00:24:29,700 --> 00:24:31,280 So what is Palm Sunday? 491 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:40,120 Palm Sunday is the day that we celebrate that Jesus rode in to Jerusalem. 492 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:45,440 And it's called traditionally in Christian history, the triumphal entry, the triumphal, 493 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:47,340 the victorious entry. 494 00:24:47,340 --> 00:24:54,400 And it's really when Jesus was coming into the final five days of his earthly life, he 495 00:24:54,400 --> 00:25:00,680 knew that his destiny was to be crucified and be slain as an atonement for the sin of 496 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:01,680 mankind. 497 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:06,160 I like the question that you posed at the very beginning of the message. 498 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:11,240 What would you do if you knew you had five days before you died? 499 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:12,240 Right. 500 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:18,160 So we showed a little video to start off the service, and it just really kind of captured 501 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,000 the last few days of Jesus. 502 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,680 And it was real subtle. 503 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:22,680 It wasn't dramatic. 504 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:27,000 It was just really, the idea was to get you to think. 505 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:33,840 And our, my associate pastor, Russ Hearn, he is, Pastor Russ is just a genius at finding 506 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,680 these videos, we call them sermon bumpers. 507 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:42,560 It's kind of the transitional time between coming out of a time of meeting, reading the 508 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,600 service and then going into the message. 509 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:50,800 But he's so good at picking these videos that we've actually said, everybody sit down. 510 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,600 I'm just stop the thing. 511 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:53,600 It's not fancy. 512 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,440 I say, stop, everybody quit fellowship and thank you for the buzz. 513 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,100 Now sit down. 514 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:01,080 And so literally, it's just get everybody in their seats. 515 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,200 And we do two services at the bridge. 516 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,360 We probably had 500 and something people there today that give or take. 517 00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:07,880 That's kind of the size we are. 518 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,400 So it's a big group of people and I'm, it's like herding cats, but I'm like, sit down. 519 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,640 I really want you to watch this. 520 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:20,880 So we watched the, we watched the video and the thought occurred to me, what, how would 521 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,000 you live your life? 522 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,840 If you knew you had five days to live, would you do anything different? 523 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:27,960 Wow. 524 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,860 When I was up on the platform, I was going to ask you, what did, how did you feel the 525 00:26:31,860 --> 00:26:32,860 response? 526 00:26:32,860 --> 00:26:33,860 Okay. 527 00:26:33,860 --> 00:26:38,320 It was literally like, not that I could see the, their cogs turning in their brains, but 528 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,920 if their brains had mechanical clogs, you know, cogs, they were turning and churning 529 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,320 because that question is very arresting. 530 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:52,360 If you knew you only had five days on this earth to live on this earth, would you, would 531 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:53,680 you do anything different? 532 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:58,440 So I could tell, I mean, you could feel the room and I have a real sense of feel for a 533 00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,440 room. 534 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:00,440 So I could feel the room. 535 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,560 People were thinking, processing. 536 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:09,600 And I said, you know, Jesus rode into Jerusalem, by the way, on a donkey. 537 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:10,600 It's just unbelievable. 538 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,360 I know it's amazing. 539 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:18,520 Rode into Jerusalem on a donkey on Palm Sunday, they laid Palm branches and their cloaks down 540 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:23,040 on the ground because what they would do when a king would come into a city, there was a 541 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,400 lot of pomp and circumstance. 542 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,200 Remember when we were in Paris, that was a great story. 543 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,760 Well, we were on the Louvre and we had no idea. 544 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,400 We're just tourists, typical tourists. 545 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,720 We're going in and out of the store, eating really good food. 546 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:37,720 Remember that? 547 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:38,720 That was amazing. 548 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:39,720 Enjoying the shops and stuff. 549 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,960 It was just a great experience and the sights and the sounds. 550 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,080 It was crowded, but it was just festive almost. 551 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:52,840 And of course, people riding around on bicycles and electric scooters and just fun and beautiful 552 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,680 weather at that time of year that we were there. 553 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,760 And then all of a sudden sirens. 554 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:04,360 I mean like a bunch of sirens and motorcycles, the police over there ride these stunning, 555 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:07,040 beautiful BMW police motorcycles. 556 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,040 They're like... 557 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:09,040 You were salivating the whole time. 558 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,040 I was. 559 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:11,040 Those motorcycles are gorgeous. 560 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,600 They're like, look futuristic almost. 561 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:19,060 Anyway, so the Parisian police, they were like, the French police are up and down. 562 00:28:19,060 --> 00:28:23,280 They were clearing the roadway and that's a very busy street coming down. 563 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,480 There's just nonstop traffic. 564 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:30,520 And all of a sudden within five minutes, that street was clear and vacated. 565 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,520 And we're like, what is going on? 566 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,440 And police were lining the sides. 567 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,880 I mean, it was almost like, and I mentioned this, it's almost like I didn't even want 568 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:42,120 to breathe because I was afraid I'd get tackled by a secret service agent or something. 569 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:47,120 I mean, you could tell something big was happening in Paris on the Louvre that day. 570 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:54,000 And then at the very end, down at the end where that huge monument is, we saw lights. 571 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:59,520 And the lights were all of the police escorts that were escorting this entourage. 572 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:04,640 And I remember later seeing on the news, it was the Korean president and a delegation 573 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:10,120 from Korea that was there visiting Paris for some kind of meeting with the government. 574 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:16,880 And I just remember how you had this sense of awe and a sense of epic. 575 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,560 It was a sense of majestic. 576 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,320 Like, this is important. 577 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:21,320 Whatever's happening. 578 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:22,320 It was a triumphal entry. 579 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:23,320 It was a triumphal entry. 580 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:24,320 It really was. 581 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,600 I remember, and it was like, it was so quiet. 582 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:27,600 We were taking pictures. 583 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:28,600 Yeah, yeah. 584 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:29,600 I took a ton of pictures. 585 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:30,600 Yeah, like, is this okay? 586 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,600 Am I going to get tackled? 587 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:33,600 But it was really... 588 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:34,600 But we didn't know what we were taking pictures of. 589 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,080 No, we didn't even know at the time. 590 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,600 It was fascinating. 591 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:44,320 So then thinking about Jesus, in the first century when a king would enter a city, they 592 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,240 would come in on a stallion. 593 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,800 They would come in on the biggest horse. 594 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:52,000 I mean, everything for a king was go big or go home. 595 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,000 The biggest everything. 596 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:59,600 The biggest, the best, the shiniest armor, the most ornate horse dressing, and then the 597 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,440 largest horse in the kingdom. 598 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,120 So everything was big, big, big. 599 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:11,360 And Jesus comes in for his triumphal entry as a king, and they're shouting, Hosanna, 600 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,840 Hosanna, which by the way, doesn't mean what you think it means. 601 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:20,680 I discovered in my study that when they were crying out, Hosanna, what they were literally 602 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,800 saying is, save us now. 603 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:24,800 That's what it means. 604 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:25,800 Save us now. 605 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,600 That's what it literally translated. 606 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,080 I always, I'd never looked it up. 607 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:36,200 I just had this assumption that Hosanna, because it's in Christian worship songs, means, oh 608 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:37,560 Lord, we praise you. 609 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:38,560 Lord, we love you. 610 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:39,560 Lord, you're amazing. 611 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,760 You know, just praise God, you're amazing. 612 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:44,960 Turns out that's not what it is at all. 613 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:51,480 In fact, it's a completely different term and phrase, and it literally means, save us 614 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:52,480 now. 615 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:53,800 They were crying out. 616 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:54,920 So it's a heart cry. 617 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,960 It's a cry of desperation. 618 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,480 It's not a praise. 619 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:03,480 It's a cry of desperation where they were saying to Jesus as he came in, and by the 620 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,360 way, he didn't enter on a horse. 621 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:08,360 He entered on what? 622 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,080 On a donkey. 623 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,080 Not just a donkey. 624 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,080 No. 625 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,520 On the donkey's colt, a foal. 626 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:16,520 Shocking. 627 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,640 Can you imagine? 628 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:24,000 I picture Jesus tall because I'm so short anyway, and so I always picture him, a real 629 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,720 tall man, just majestic looking. 630 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:32,160 The lion of the tribe of Judah. 631 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,840 And he's on this small, small. 632 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,360 He wasn't on the mama donkey. 633 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:38,520 Now they brought them both. 634 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:43,760 They brought both the mom, the mama donkey, and the colt. 635 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:44,760 And they came together. 636 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,440 They had them tied together because probably the mom was leading and the little colt was 637 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:49,440 falling. 638 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,040 But Jesus didn't even ride on the mama donkey. 639 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:52,040 No. 640 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,040 Can you imagine? 641 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,040 His feet have to be dragging. 642 00:31:54,040 --> 00:32:02,160 But I want to know, the Bible doesn't talk about it, but I wish I knew what the people 643 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:06,520 were thinking when they saw him because here they are shouting, our king, our king. 644 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:07,520 Hosanna. 645 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:12,440 Seeing him, I just can't even fathom that. 646 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,760 You would think there would be some grumbling like, what? 647 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,680 You think they're going to be like, wait a minute. 648 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,480 I thought he was going to come in on a horse. 649 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,240 So you have to understand there's a lot of history behind this. 650 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,880 There's so much context. 651 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,360 I won't go into it all, but here's the basic context. 652 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,920 Rome had been in charge for over a hundred years, for over a century. 653 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:39,360 So they had dominated the Jewish people, had dominated the nation of Israel in particular, 654 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,240 the heart of Israel, which is Jerusalem. 655 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,200 And they had dropped the hammer hard many times. 656 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,760 They were oppressive. 657 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,600 They were brutal. 658 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,640 They decimated the people. 659 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,800 The people were just broken down, broken down generation after generation. 660 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:03,800 But prophets, even hundreds and even thousands of years before, begin to say there is coming 661 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,680 a day when a Messiah will arise. 662 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,840 Messiah, meaning a leader, a deliverer, a rescuer. 663 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,020 One to save you. 664 00:33:13,020 --> 00:33:16,160 One who will come to save and deliver will come. 665 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:23,060 And there were over 400, or around 400 biblical prophecies out of the Old Testament that allude 666 00:33:23,060 --> 00:33:25,960 to and speak to this Messiah that's coming. 667 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:31,040 Of course, now on this side of history, we understand that was Jesus. 668 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:36,520 And so all these generations had told story after story, prophets had spoken. 669 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,820 And so all these stories got passed down through the generations. 670 00:33:39,820 --> 00:33:49,000 So by the time you turn into the first century, you know, from BC to AD, there's this massive 671 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,980 expectation of there will come a deliverer. 672 00:33:52,980 --> 00:33:55,560 And we have been under the hand of Persia. 673 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,640 We've been under the hand of Babylon. 674 00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:58,640 We've been under the hand. 675 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:04,720 I mean, just one nation after another has ruled over the Jewish people. 676 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:09,040 We were under the hand of Pharaoh in Egypt in the beginning. 677 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,520 And now we're under the hammer of Rome. 678 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,360 And Rome was as brutal as any of them. 679 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:18,520 And they're expecting a Messiah. 680 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:23,880 On the scene comes this carpenter or bricklayer, depending on who you read. 681 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,840 Stone Mason, stone Mason from Nazareth. 682 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:28,200 Nazareth. 683 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,000 Can anything good come out of Nazareth? 684 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,600 Nazareth was a joke to the nation of Israel. 685 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,860 And they saw it as like the low of the low. 686 00:34:38,860 --> 00:34:41,280 So Jesus comes out of Nazareth. 687 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:46,180 He grows up in obscurity for most of his 30 years. 688 00:34:46,180 --> 00:34:52,560 And then suddenly he comes on the scene when he meets a Samaritan woman at a well, and 689 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,040 he tells her who he is. 690 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:58,760 And she runs to the city and announces, I've met him. 691 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,360 Come and see a man who told me everything about myself. 692 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:06,920 And now through a woman of all things, she evangelizes Samaritan. 693 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:07,920 Isn't it beautiful? 694 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,880 She becomes the first evangelist. 695 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:10,880 Was not a man. 696 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:12,080 Sorry, bros. 697 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,080 It was a woman. 698 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:14,080 It was. 699 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:15,120 And she runs and she tells. 700 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,800 And that starts his public ministry. 701 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,160 By this time, he had already called some of his disciples to himself. 702 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,000 Not all of them, but some of them. 703 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:29,280 So all the backdrop here is that something is building here with the birth of Jesus Christ. 704 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:37,300 And Jesus actually fulfilled over 300, just under 400, depending on who you read, prophecies 705 00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:38,620 from the Old Testament. 706 00:35:38,620 --> 00:35:42,800 In fact, on the day he was crucified, how many do you remember? 707 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:43,800 28. 708 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:49,600 He fulfilled 28 messianic prophecies about himself just in one day. 709 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,720 So this last five days of his life, that's why I ask, what would you do if you knew you 710 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:54,720 had five days? 711 00:35:54,720 --> 00:36:00,800 Well, Jesus knew he had five days and he had a mission to fulfill. 712 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,400 And so he fulfilled that mission, starting with his triumphal entry. 713 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:09,280 He comes off of Mount Olivet, which looks over, it's called the Mount of Olives, which 714 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:14,880 looks over the east side of Jerusalem. 715 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,000 And he goes down this hill on a donkey. 716 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:23,300 On a baby donkey, which is completely the opposite. 717 00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:29,160 And so basically Jesus is the one who flips the script in our life. 718 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,120 He never comes like we think he's going to come. 719 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:39,520 I don't know about you who are listening today, but maybe you've prayed, you've asked God 720 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:44,520 for things, you've cried out to him and you felt like he didn't answer your prayer or 721 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,840 he didn't answer it like you thought he was going to answer it. 722 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,360 Listen, just so you know, that's his MO. 723 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,720 He never comes like you think he's going to come. 724 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:56,040 He flips the script consistently. 725 00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,960 And that's exactly what Jesus did when he rode in on a donkey. 726 00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:05,400 Palm leaves waving, which is basically their symbol of our, it'd be like us waving an American 727 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:09,120 flag for a dignitary coming through in a parade. 728 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,280 It's basically the same thing. 729 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:16,120 And Jesus came into the city and his triumphal entry was not on a stallion. 730 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:20,040 It was on a donkey, not only a donkey, but a baby donkey. 731 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,920 It was as low as he could go. 732 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:27,360 And what he was saying in that moment was, I'm not coming like you think I'm coming. 733 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:31,160 Because I thought he was going to come and obliterate all of the Romans and give them 734 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:32,160 freedom. 735 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:33,920 But he was giving them freedom in a different way. 736 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,160 They just didn't know. 737 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:36,160 Exactly. 738 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:41,600 In fact, only Jesus is recorded in the scriptures as weeping three times. 739 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:48,200 And in this instance, it says that as he came into the city, he wept over the city. 740 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:53,720 And the reason he wept, Luke records this, is because they didn't know the time of their 741 00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:54,720 visitation. 742 00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:59,120 They didn't know that peace was among them. 743 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,680 They could have had peace from the get go, but they didn't know. 744 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:02,680 They didn't see it. 745 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,320 Their eyes were blinded. 746 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:05,760 So Jesus had to go to the cross. 747 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:11,200 So this begins, this day begins what's known in the Christian tradition as passion week 748 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:12,960 or holy week. 749 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,840 And it's called Palm Sunday. 750 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:19,920 And so there's a litany of events that will happen throughout the week in terms of what 751 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:26,320 Jesus did, what he experienced, which led up to his eventual crucifixion, which next 752 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,000 week we'll talk a little bit about that. 753 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,080 Because it'll kind of be our Easter edition of the show. 754 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:36,520 And so our encouragement to you is, is we kind of, I landed on some things that I want 755 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,080 to encourage you with. 756 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:43,440 And the first one is this, in terms of what this means for real life, making faith real 757 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,080 for the rest of us is simply this. 758 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:51,560 Jesus flips the script on every life he touches. 759 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:59,560 I've often said this, that Jesus often brings us what we need in a package we didn't expect 760 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,600 and in a package we didn't necessarily want. 761 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:03,600 That's for sure. 762 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,240 Can you imagine if he answered every prayer we prayed? 763 00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:10,280 Oh, there'd be carnage on highways. 764 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:11,280 Yes. 765 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:18,680 Because I prayed some prayers that I'm thankful that they didn't get answered. 766 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,740 Because I wouldn't be here today. 767 00:39:21,740 --> 00:39:23,640 We wouldn't be here today. 768 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:28,880 We would be in a whole, you know, who knows what kind of profession we would be in. 769 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:30,840 How's he flipped the script on your life? 770 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:35,200 I mean, what happened to you that would be different? 771 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:40,160 Well, the way I grew up, who knows what could have happened? 772 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:49,240 I probably would have been a real man hater, which then would have lent itself to hate 773 00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:52,080 God as much as I cried out. 774 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:53,080 Think about it. 775 00:39:53,080 --> 00:40:00,920 I cried out to God so much as a child, as an abused child from an abusive parent. 776 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:06,840 I remember standing at my window and praying and praying that a cop would come by so I 777 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,600 could wave at him and say, please help me. 778 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,480 And I'm glad he didn't answer that. 779 00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:13,480 Wow. 780 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:14,480 I know. 781 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:15,480 Isn't that crazy? 782 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:19,400 Because a lot of things had to happen to get me to where I am today. 783 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:24,240 And honestly, I could literally, I could have hated God for that. 784 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:32,520 But there were so many, so many things that have taken place in my life that are just 785 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:33,520 God winks. 786 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,000 You know how you talk about God winks? 787 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:42,640 That I believe they've all culminated into who I am today. 788 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:50,680 And so, yeah, I'm very thankful that some of the prayers I've prayed did not work out 789 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:55,480 because God, and I was telling you this as we were driving home, God knows the end from 790 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:56,480 the beginning. 791 00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:02,040 And so it's best for us to pray for His will, not ours. 792 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:03,040 Wow. 793 00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,480 And let God do what He's going to do. 794 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:06,480 Man. 795 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:10,720 You know, I was telling somebody at church today, I didn't tell you this, but how proud 796 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:12,080 I am of you. 797 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:13,080 Why? 798 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,160 Because you're a champion. 799 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:19,600 You're a rock star to me, Annette, because I know your past. 800 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:24,240 Others don't know your whole story and some of the things you had to overcome and things 801 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:26,400 you had to work through. 802 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,120 And a lot of people aren't willing to do the work. 803 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:30,540 They're not willing to persevere. 804 00:41:30,540 --> 00:41:31,540 They're not resilient. 805 00:41:31,540 --> 00:41:34,960 You're one of the most resilient human beings I've ever met. 806 00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:35,960 I'm a fighter. 807 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:36,960 I'm a warrior. 808 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:37,960 You are. 809 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:38,960 And I love that about you. 810 00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,240 I had a gentleman say, you're a Joan of Arc. 811 00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:43,240 Do you remember that? 812 00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:44,240 That was... 813 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:45,240 That's powerful. 814 00:41:45,240 --> 00:41:46,240 Highsmith. 815 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:47,240 Remember? 816 00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:48,240 Yes, I do remember that. 817 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:49,240 Coach. 818 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:50,920 You're a Joan of Arc. 819 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:52,240 So you're a Joan of Arc. 820 00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:55,040 And I was told by Tommy Hayes that you're a David. 821 00:41:55,040 --> 00:42:00,000 And I'm like, boy, Joan of Arc and David getting together, that's a scary combo. 822 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,600 We're going to slay the world. 823 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,840 And I'm going to play a guitar in the meantime. 824 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:06,840 A harp. 825 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:07,840 All these years. 826 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:08,840 No kidding. 827 00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:15,600 But I'm just so proud of you because I love being able to tell others your story, to give 828 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:16,600 them hope. 829 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,600 Look, you think it's bad. 830 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,680 Let me tell you where Annette has been. 831 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,500 And she is... 832 00:42:23,500 --> 00:42:24,760 It's not just that you fought. 833 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,360 It's that you surrendered to God. 834 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:28,360 Exactly. 835 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,200 Fighting takes effort. 836 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:32,960 Surrendering is a release. 837 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:37,920 And I've seen you both fight and I've seen you surrender. 838 00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:45,400 Well, when I was crying out for a police to come, God came instead. 839 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:49,680 Because it was during that time that I was invited to church. 840 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:53,880 And I went to church for the first time the week before Easter. 841 00:42:53,880 --> 00:43:02,200 And I remember feeling such love, overwhelming love in this church. 842 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,440 And I had never felt anything like that. 843 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:12,560 And I really do believe that that was God just enveloping me with His arms of other 844 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:13,560 people. 845 00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,000 Do you think He was showing you what's possible? 846 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,000 Yes, I do. 847 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,640 That you could have a life like this? 848 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:21,640 I needed God. 849 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,720 That you could have a life like this. 850 00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:24,720 Yes. 851 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:25,720 It's powerful. 852 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:26,720 Yes. 853 00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:27,720 It's beautiful. 854 00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:29,360 Well, I'm proud of you and you really are a hero to me. 855 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:30,360 I mean that. 856 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,640 You're a model of someone who has said, I'll never quit. 857 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,000 I'll never give up. 858 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,320 It's the Holy Spirit. 859 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:37,320 Period. 860 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:38,320 It's beautiful. 861 00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:39,320 It's beautiful. 862 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:43,120 And those of you that are listening right now, I mean, first of all, I want to thank 863 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,920 you for those of you that have written in to us and have asked questions or you've shared 864 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,420 your story. 865 00:43:48,420 --> 00:43:50,680 And we want to invite you to continue to do that. 866 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,760 You can go to livingupinadownworld.com. 867 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:54,920 How easy is that? 868 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,240 Livingupinadownworld.com. 869 00:43:57,240 --> 00:43:58,240 And you can email us. 870 00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:05,340 I love, we love hearing your stories, hearing your testimonies, hearing pieces of your journey. 871 00:44:05,340 --> 00:44:09,080 And that has been absolutely so encouraging to us. 872 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:10,200 To read your stories. 873 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,440 I'll always get back with you via email. 874 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,760 Maybe a day or two or three, depending, but I will write you back. 875 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,840 And we want to hear from you. 876 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,560 We want to hear about your story, about your journey, about where you are. 877 00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,240 Even if it's not in a good place, we can handle it. 878 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:29,320 And better yet, God can handle it because we care about you and we want the best for 879 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:30,320 you. 880 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:35,880 And I've got our own stories and our own tales of woes, so to speak, that we've had to overcome. 881 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:37,160 But here's what I know. 882 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:41,480 Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. 883 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:45,080 And that God has made you an overcomer. 884 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,080 In Christ, you can. 885 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,960 In Christ, you will overcome. 886 00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,360 That's the beauty of the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ. 887 00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,600 We invite you to the table. 888 00:44:55,600 --> 00:45:00,880 And we want you to know that with us, you have a seat at the table with us. 889 00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,960 So write in, let us know what's going on in your life. 890 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:08,480 For one thing, we'll pray for you and pray with you to encourage you. 891 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:09,480 That's our heart. 892 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:14,320 If you just need somebody to reach out to who maybe is far enough away that you feel 893 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,320 safe, then feel free to write in to us. 894 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:17,800 We want to hear from you. 895 00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:18,800 LivingUpInADownWorld.com. 896 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:24,280 We also want to always give a shout out to our dear friends, Adam and Tina Curry. 897 00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,600 Adam and Tina have really coached us through and helped us. 898 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,320 This is episode number 13, by the way. 899 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:31,320 Can you believe it? 900 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:32,320 13 weeks. 901 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:33,920 13 weeks in a row. 902 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:41,440 And we're so thankful that God brought us into their life and them into ours. 903 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,440 And we've become the absolute friends. 904 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,960 And we're so thankful for that. 905 00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,320 We've been able to walk together and watch them on their own faith journey. 906 00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:51,660 It's been exciting. 907 00:45:51,660 --> 00:45:55,460 So we encourage you to check out their podcast. 908 00:45:55,460 --> 00:46:00,640 Adam has a great podcast with John Dvorak called No Agenda, where they do basically, 909 00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,240 in their own words, media assassination. 910 00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:04,240 It's hilarious. 911 00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:06,200 But it's also very informative. 912 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,400 And then also, really, I think our favorite is this. 913 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,340 Curry and the Keeper. 914 00:46:11,340 --> 00:46:13,280 With both Adam and Tina together. 915 00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:19,140 And they've really created a format for us in what we're doing here. 916 00:46:19,140 --> 00:46:23,200 And they invited us into the podcast world, even just based on theirs. 917 00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,640 So we'd encourage you to check them out. 918 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:26,640 Curry and the Keeper. 919 00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,840 You can find them on Fountain or any of the other main things. 920 00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,400 But Fountain is one of the best. 921 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,760 We encourage you to go to Fountain and check it out. 922 00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:35,520 Anything you have to say at the end here, Annette? 923 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,000 This has been a sweet time. 924 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,000 Yes. 925 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,400 I'm just, I'm really at peace today. 926 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,400 It's been a really, really good day. 927 00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,040 Thank you for making my birthday special. 928 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,680 And I love you so much. 929 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:48,680 I love you more. 930 00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,680 You're supposed to say I love you more than that. 931 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:52,680 That's our family. 932 00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:53,680 It is. 933 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:54,680 All right, family. 934 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,760 We love you guys. 935 00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:00,040 Have an amazing week on purpose, living up in a down world. 936 00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,640 We will see you next week. 937 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,720 Hey, Easter is on the way. 938 00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:09,160 And Jesus, even though He took the hit for us, we're going to declare that Jesus Christ 939 00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:10,160 is risen. 940 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:11,160 Amen. 941 00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:12,160 God bless you. 942 00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:13,160 We love you. 943 00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:30,360 God bless you.